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Minniechickmama said:
I ordered more varieties of garlic for this coming fall.  I know my DH is going to think I am nuts....wait, he already does, so no problem there.

We put in Music, German Extra Hardy, Georgian Fire and Killarney Red last fall.  I ordered Georgian Crystal, German Red and Pskem River for this year to add to them.
Here is a tidbit some of you might not know...

Before the fall of the USSR and the break-up of the states within, we had very little garlic in the Western Hemisphere.  When that happened hundreds of varieties of garlic were then introduced to the rest of the world and interest in growing it in American gardens boomed.  I am do glad it did too.  I LOVE GARLIC!!  My husband is on the road a lot and sometimes be brings home from the deli at certain grocery stores, garlic cloves in olive oil with hot peppers and carrot slices that have been pickled somehow and then packed in oil.  My favorite thing to eat is toasted flatbread smothered with garlicky hummus and those veggies.  I can eat that every day!!!  I am hoping I can do some of that myself this fall and have it any time I want.  I was going to try growing garbanzo beans this year, but I kind of decided against it.
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The guy I got my seed stock from tried to sell me Georgian crystal too and it was gorgeous. I just didn't want to come home with 50 lbs of garlic and didn't have any more money (which was a convenient excuse) if this garlic does well and i can find the guy back next year I might add that kind
 
I didn't get mine in in time this past fall. I read though that you can put it in in early spring and have smaller bulbs. Have any of you tried that? I spent $50 on locally grown garlic, I really don't want to waste it!
 
athalia17 said:
I didn't get mine in in time this past fall. I read though that you can put it in in early spring and have smaller bulbs. Have any of you tried that? I spent $50 on locally grown garlic, I really don't want to waste it!
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It can't hurt. I would imagine you get fewer cloves per bulb but it would be better than nothing. Probably plant it as soon as you can get soil worked and holes in the ground.
 
I like garlic but knowone has grown any since I was little. My favorite is to eat the garlic cloves out of the garlic dill pickles we make.
 
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This is the only little guy out of 8 eggs that hatched under the hen. One cracked and spread all over the rest. This one only had egg white on it's shell. I took the egg out from under her 8 days before hatch and put it in the bator- threw the rest, and put a new batch under her. Three days into it, one of the new eggs under her cracked all over too. So I changed all the eggs again and put this little egg with the whites on the shell, and three others ready to hatch back under her yesterday. She's a red ranger hen, big girl.
 
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Beautiful chicks holm!! What breeds? I have two super blue eggs that I hope hatch. My pet chicken (gasp for using them) gave me a credit a while back ago for some chicks I bought (original chickens for egg production for my csa). So I ordered a few hatching eggs from them. 50% rate, average for shipped. Hope they hatch!!! Every time I get Easter eggers that are blue or green layers, they end up cream. These aren't the prettiest birds, but they are supposed to definely lay blue, lol.
http://www.mypetchicken.com/catalog...Hatching-Eggs-Super-Blue-Egg-Layer-p1950.aspx
 

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